Re: Request for DECT LINKTYPE

[Matthias Wenzel <tcpdump () mazzoo de>]

Guy Harris wrote:
> On Dec 22, 2008, at 1:58 PM, Matthias Wenzel wrote:

> > In contrast we have a very specific device, and there's no such thing as
> > a cordless or DECT layer within linux (yet). If there was we'd
> > appreciate to interface and record there...
> > But as of now there's a char device for a special HW, with ioctls and I
> > doubt anyone believes in transporting that very specifig thingie in
> > pcap...
>
> I do.  You'd have pcap_create() for your platform look for a device
> string that referred to your device, and call a separate _create routine
> for your device; that routine would set up the activate routine for your
> device, and that activate routine would open the character device, set
> it up for capturing, and set up the other routines for your device, such
> as the _read routine to read packets from it.

OK, thanks for clarification, I was thinking about a lower layer there...
Generally I don't disagree with pulling our stuff in libpcap, but how
could we reflect very DECT-specific settings in the pcap API, such as
setting a radio channel, setting a RFPI (like a MAC address), switching
between async scan mode and synchronized packet capure?

matthias
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